OT: Thin Clients, Anybody know anything Options

[Qarl]

Looking to upgrade one of our offices. It has 30 PCs that are about 5 years old.

Everybody runs the same crap.

Microsoft office
Adobe Acrobat
Internet Explorer
Terminal Emulaton programs
Anti-virus software.

Looking at thin-clients as a replacement solution (less IT management of each PC).

How does software licensing work? I know you have to have the terminal server with enough client access licenses for each machine?

What if I wanted to run Microsoft Office? How does licensing work? Do you buy one license (since you only really running one copy?), or do you have to have some sort of user license of each terminal running it?

Same question for other applications.

Anybody with any real world experience?

Thanks.

[anthony]

Anyway, don't worry about thin clients. Just get a good cloning system like Norton Ghost (corporate edition). You build one machine, clone it, and then building subsequent machines takes 15 minutes or so.

On your Windows domain use roaming profiles so that all the users files are stored on the server. Then if a workstation dies, you reclone it, and all the users files are still on the server. You'll need a couple Windows servers in this kind of scenario (one as a primary active directory server and a secondary as a backup).